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A Bookaholic, Pro-life, Pro-Family, Pro-Oxford Comma, Catholic (with Asperger's) who reads and writes as her obsession. I've been reading over 400 books a year lately. These are my ramblings on some of the books I read. To read about all the books I read and comment on, visit me at LibraryThing or Goodreads.

I've been blogging since 2007 and at this point (July 2015) am trying my hand at turning the theme of this blog towards mystery, thriller, and crime, fiction and nonfiction. I have some special interest topics and categories within this broad genre which include (but are not limited to) serial killers, scandi-crime, Victorian history and historicals, history of the criminally insane and asylums, psychopathology, death, funerary practices and burial, corpses, true crime and anything dealing with the real life macabre, or that portrayed in fiction.

I also read a short story a day from various collections, sometimes anthologies othertimes collections of a single author's work. These reviews are also posted here and while they are of mixed genre the mystery, thriller, horror, gothic and macabre often appear within their pages as well.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Monday: Books in the Mail

Last week I started to feel like a bookstore or something with the rate of frequency and quantity of books that arrived in my mailbox! They came from a variety of sources and are not all review books though the majority of them are. Why the sudden influx of books? Cybils review copies!! A big thank you goes out to all the publishers who are supplying review copies for the Cybils panelists and judges. Plus I mooched a couple of books and won a book as well. Sorry, no pictures or descriptions today or it would take me all morning to write and format this post. Now on to the books!

Currently Reading

Goodreads Last 5 Reviews

This is more like it! Much better than the last book. Half of our cast of characters gets shipwrecked on a hurricane island while those left behind plan for an upcoming attack from Quill. Fast-paced, a page-turner for me. I'd read half t...

Fantastic! A very interesting history and biography.This tells the story of the Russian man who invented Tetris, the history of the game itself, and to my surprise the history of the company, Nintendo. I had no idea they've been around s...

A collection of stories with the theme of the Apocalypse; some take place during, others pre- or post-. The stories are presented chronologically by published date with the occasional break in the rule. Robert Silverberg is an excellent ...

The art is cute but otherwise, it did nothing for me. Nothing really happens and there's no explanation for what little does happen. Plus all the names are unpronounceable and there are made-up words which are just plain annoying.

A guy kills himself and keeps waking up, after 4 attempts he realises that every time he dies he possesses the body closest to him. Now the government is after him as they want to use him as an agent. Bloody, violent, irreverent and hila...